I made my first ever contributions to an open source project yesterday and today. The project is Django, a newly released web framework for Python. Yesterday I stuck my toe in the water with an addition to a wiki describing how I accomplished something. Then today I took the full plunge and submtited a ticket complete with patch that solves a minor annoyance I've been having.

[edit: Looking back over this post while porting to my new blog. The wiki addition was a totally stupid (insecure) idea - partly because I only needed it for an internal app. The ticket got closed as "wontfix", but I looked around for that piece of code in the current django, and the exact same thing is in there. Heh.]